Courtroom artists in Britain have to work from memory, but in the USA they
have the advantage of being allowed to sit with their drawing materials. The
Illustrated Courtroom: Fifty years of courtroom art by Elizabeth
Williams and Sue Russell (CUNY Journalism Press) is an anthology of this
underrated genre. The camera has not yet displaced it in evoking tension:
Charles Manson restrained by a bailiff as he leaps to attack the judge,
Michael Jackson weeping as he is cleared of child abuse, Bernard Madoff led
away to the lockup in handcuffs.